Creating The Constitution Question Preview (ID: 46293)


This Review Game Covers The Origins Of The Constitution, Including The Virginia And New Jersey Plans. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

How was Congress organized under the Virginia Plan?
a) bicameral legislature (2 houses)
b) unicameral legislature (1 house)
c) tricameral legislature (3 houses)
d)

How was representation determined under the Virginia Plan?
a) Population
b) Based on population in one house and equal in the other
c) Equal representation
d) State size in area

How was Congress organized under the New Jersey Plan?
a) tricameral legislature (3 houses)
b) bicameral legislature (2 houses)
c) Unicameral legislature (1 house)
d)

How was representation determined under the New Jersey Plan?
a) Population
b) Equal representation
c) Money
d) State size

What did the Great Compromise do?
a) Each slave would count as 3/5 of a person for representation and taxation purposes
b) Nothing, it was a failure
c) Created a unicameral legislature
d) Created the current bicameral legislature

How is Congress currently organized?
a) Senate = Upper House and House = Lower House
b) Senate= Upper House and Supreme Court = Lower House
c) House= Upper House and Senate= Lower House
d) President= Upper House and House= Lower House

What did the 3/5 Compromise do?
a) Each slave would count as 5/3 of a person for representation and taxation purposes
b) Each slave would count as 3/5 of a person for representation and taxation purposes
c) Merged the Virginia and New Jersey Plans into one
d) Created the current bicameral legislature

Congress is made up of two houses, which one is based on population?
a) Congress
b) Senate
c) Continental Congress
d) House of Representatives

Congress is made up of two houses, which one has equal representation?
a) Senate
b) House of Representatives
c) They both have equal representation
d) Congress

The Great Compromise and the 3/5 Compromise were both resolved by ____
a) The Constitutional Convention
b) The Continental Congress
c) The Congress
d) George Washington

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